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Newspaper Article
City is 'benefits capital' of UK
2014
Overview
BIRMINGHAM is the \"bene-fits capital\" of the UK, according to new research. Figures revealed the city has a Pounds 2.7 billion Jobseeker's Allowance bill - double that of any other authority and only trailing Hull in terms of the per head figure. She said that the show was not representative because \"in a typical Ladywood street of 100 houses, 42 people would be living on the state pension, 15 would be sick and disabled, many of them also old, and those on Jobseeker's Allowance would be fewer than three.\" \"I fear some of the people featured played up to the cameras, thinking they'd at last found a little of the 'glamour' of so-called celebrity for which so many yearn. \"But more darkly it provided false justification for viewers to judge and sneer.
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Mirror Regional Newspapers
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